Roleplay family

ROLEPLAY AND FAMILY

Family makes us what we are. They are one of the strongest factors, if not the strongest, in our own personal development, so "WHY do so many players choose to play orphans and only children?" Making your character an orphan, only child, or having had their whole family die off has its place but it is a very small place and not to be beaten to death. Family should be a large portion of your Biography. Make each personality as real to you as your character, you don't _need_ to cast players as your actual relatives in order to have relatives. Make your 60 year old mother a puppet and maybe ask an on-line friend of yours who knows your character and understands what you are going for with your mother (they don't have to be mind readers, just tell them about your mother). Have children and ex-wives and grandparents and crazy Aunt Lucys and a cousin named Junebug.